OUR STORY SO FAR…

IKAWA was the brainchild of founders Andrew Stordy and Rombout Frieling who had
the idea while studying Industrial Design at London’s Royal College of Art.

We’re proud to have thousands of fantastic professional customs using the
Sample Roaster every day and can’t wait for the worlds coffee lovers to have
our Home Coffee Roasters in their kitchens.

ANDREW & ROMBOUT HAVE AN IDEA

TRIP TO BURUNDI ON THE TRAIL OF COFFEE

SAMPLE ROASTER LAUNCHES

IKAWA AT HOME KICKSTARTER

IKAWA IS OFFICIAL SAMPLE ROASTER FOR UK ROASTING CHAMPIONSHIP

FIRST SHIPMENT OF IKAWA AT HOME

ANDREW & ROMBOUT HAVE AN IDEA

Andrew’s final year project at RCA was the Roaster Grinder Brewer back in 2008.

The coffee didn’t taste too good + grinders and filter machines have been invented already, so they decided to focus on making an awesome roaster.

TRIP TO BURUNDI ON THE TRAIL OF COFFEE

Andrew and Rombout took a trip to Burundi to understand what it takes to create an excellent quality coffee, and followed it right through to the port at Dar es Salaam.

During the process, we learned how IKAWA could help coffee growers by being able to roast coffee in origin. It’s a bit dated, but you can watch the video here

SAMPLE ROASTER LAUNCHES

Our first professional customers received their Sample Roasters in 2013.

These pioneers like Marcelo , Uwe and Andrew have been roasting on their IKAWAs ever since.

We’re proud to say there are now thousands of professionals using our Sample Roasters all over the world.

IKAWA AT HOME KICKSTARTER

With the help of 366 fantastic backers we got the support we needed (and more!), to fund the development of the IKAWA At Home and embarked on our journey to bring the project to life.

This included trips across continents to meet suppliers, tens of thousands of test roasts, more late nights than we’d care to remember, and culminated with us moving to our new workshop in London Fields where we manufacture all our coffee roasting machines.